The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
